4. Product questions
• Do French & Americans
have similar movie tastes?
• Is demographic data
important?
• Should rows “float”?
• Should Netflix cancel
“House of Cards”?
• Should Netflix send a
reminder before your
“Free Trial” ends?
5. • Encourage independent decision-making by employees
• Share information openly, broadly and deliberately
• Are extraordinarily candid with each other
• Keep only our highly effective people, and
• Avoid rules
At Netflix we:
Our core philosophy is people over process.
8. Strategy
• Plan to achieve long-
term goal
• Hypotheses for how
to build customer &
shareholder value
Tactics
• Project or experiment
against a strategy
9. Why strategy?
• Ensure teamwork in highly
aligned, loosely coupled way
• Motivating, high-level view
• Discipline without process
• Enable prioritization &
saying “no,” a lot
10. Focus & phasing: GLEe
1. Get big on ______
2. Lead ________
3. Expand _________
11. Focus & phasing
1. Get big on DVDs
2. Lead downloading
3. Expand worldwide
12. Every company rides the
growth wave up, until it
crests then falls. The
secret is to continually
create the next growth
wave.”
Jeff Kagan, Industry Analyst
“
13. The DMH Model
• Delight customers in
• Margin-enhancing,
• Hard-to-copy ways
17. Delight customers
• Personalized
• Instant delivery
• Value
• Easy
• Selection
• New releases
• All devices
• More original content
• Download & playback
• Multiple streams
• 4K video and audio
• Voice ID & control
31. Goals of quarterly meeting
Provide context through strategy
Share and debate:
• key results & learnings, and
• future hypotheses
Develop business maturity, and
Determine level of investment.
32. Netflix Swim lanes
• Personalization
• Merchandising
• Search
• DVD
• Instant
• TV
• Community
• Open APIs
• Help/account
• Non-member
33. For each swim lane
Key strategies
Tactics, and
Metrics
34.
35. 2017 Non-member metrics
Deliver 30M WW members
through increased:
• Trials/Visits (2.1%)
• Month One retention (94%)
• Lifetime value ($180), and
• Lower acquisition cost ($50)
Data estimates for illustration only.
36. Strategies
• Brand & positioning
• Price/plan/free trial
• Personalization
• Multi-platform
• Open APIs
• Social
Tactics
• Original content
• 4K plan testing
• Featured titles
• Alexa launch
• Universal search
• Recommend to a friend
37. Meeting prep
Publish via Google slides
Articulate overall strategy + pod strategy/tactics/metrics
Describe results, learning & future hypotheses
Data & design rich
46. Discussion & debate
• Launch, or not?
Result
• Launched to all
• Positive WOM and brand effect
• Customer more likely to restart
• Revenue shift not loss?
• Possible long-term gain?
47. Good meeting like a movie
Well-defined script
Strong prep & engagement
Drama:
• Success, failure & diving catches
• Debate, decide, & do
Denouement: Beer & NPS survey
48. The meeting = culture mechanism
Highly aligned, loosely coupled
Candor
Customer, business & data-focused
Fast-paced learning to develop business maturity
49. 1.Define the overall product strat, metrics & tactics
2.Repeat for all of your swim lanes, then
3.Execute your first quarterly prod start meeting
4.Keep getting better
Next Steps for You
50. If you want to build a ship, don’t drum
up the people to gather wood, divide
the work, and give orders. Instead
teach them to yearn for the vast and
endless sea.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Little Prince
“